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A MAN threatened to burn his former partner’s house down a court heard yesterday.

Defendant Karl Andrew Jones, 41, admitted a charge of threatening to cause criminal damage by fire – and that put him in breach of a previous suspended prison sentence.

Jones, now of Sandy Lane in Garden City, was made the subject of a two year community sentence – which includes special orders not to approach his former partner Karen Dixon, and he is not to go within 100 metres of her address in Connah’s Quay High Street.

Flintshire magistrates sitting at Mold said they would not activate the suspended prison sentence but they ordered him to carry out an additional 120 hours unpaid work, with £200 costs.

Prosecutor Justin Espie told the court how the couple had been in a relationship until Boxing Day last year.

But it was claimed there had been a history of domestic abuse.

He went to her address in June and was refused entry.

The defendant then made telephone calls to her in which he threatened to cause damage and he added: “I am going to burn your house down with you inside it.”

She had been worried by the threat, feared he would carry it out, and the problems she had with the defendant were making her ill, said mr Espie.

Defending solicitor Steven Alis said the suspended sentence had been for excess alcohol and it had almost run its course when the new offence was committed.